88 Pounds! February 1, 2010

I mentioned this in a comment on another thread, but I’ve been meaning to put this in it’s own post because this is a pretty major milestone. As of this weekend I’ve lost a total of 88 pounds since I started on my diet & exercise program last summer. That means I’m exactly halfway to my final goal of losing 176 pounds. At that time I will have obtained my ideal weight according to the Body Mass Index*. I’ve come pretty far in the seven months or so since I started this journey and I still have a ways to go. They say the first 88 pounds is the low-hanging fruit of weight loss** so I expect I’ll need to step up my regimen if I want to keep at this kind of pace.

Alas, I’ve managed to lose my thumbdrive where I kept all my weekly weight recordings and whatnot so I don’t have a cool graph to go with this post.

*Yes, yes I know. The BMI isn’t perfect and it isn’t useful at all for athletes and other super-fit type people. I’m not aiming for super-fit and no one will ever mistake me for an athlete. I just want to be normal and healthy and for that the BMI gives me a useful, clearly definable goal.